We examined the influence of land use/land cover (LULC) on macroinvertebrate assemblages and environmental conditions in streams draining 18 small watersheds in the Southern Outer Piedmont ecoregion in Georgia, USA, over a 24-mo period of record. Specifically, we analyzed relationships among LULC categories (i.e., % impervious surface [IS], pasture, silviculture, and deciduous/evergreen forest)...

Remote sensing and gis-based Land use and land cover change detection in the upper Dijo river catchment, Silte zone, southern Ethiopia Working papers on population and land use change in central Ethiopia, nr. 17 ABSTRACT Land use and land cover (LULC) change is one of the challenges which strongly influence the process of agricultural development and the food security situation in Ethiopia in g...

Knowledge of the floral cycle and the spatial distribution and abundance of flowering plants is important for bee health studies to understand the relationship between landscape and bee hive productivity and honey flow. The key objective of this study was to show how AISA Eagle hyperspectral data and random forest (RF) can be optimally utilized to produce flowering and spatially explicit land u...

As soil is the basis of all terrestrial ecosystems, degraded soil means lower fertility, reduced biodiversity and reduced human welfare. Therefore the focus of this paper is on elucidating the influence of land use and land cover (LULC) change on two important soil quality indicators that are fundamental to effective measures for ameliorating soil degradation; namely soil acidity and soil salin...

Understanding the impact of postdam climate feedbacks, resulting from land use/land cover (LULC) variability, on modification of extreme precipitation (EP) remains a challenge for a twenty-first-century approach to dam design and operation. In this study, the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS, version 6.0) was used, involving a number of predefined LULC scenarios to address the importa...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES The Meghalaya region had been considered free of malaria, but recently malaria cases in the foothills and valley areas raised concern that malaria transmission at high elevations may be increasing. This increase is associated with land use and land cover (LULC) changes. This LULC directly modifies larval habitats and affect the anopheline larval distribution patterns. ...

Numerous applications make use of data on land use and land cover (LULC). Given their importance and use, land cover data is assumed to be readily available or trivially acquired for a given landscape. Unfortunately, this is often not the case. LULC data at hand are often out-of-date, inappropriate for a particular application [1], or contain other difficulties. Thematic mapping of remotely sen...

Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data forms the basis for numerous land use and land cover (LULC) mapping and analysis frameworks at regional scale. Compared to other satellite sensors, the spatial, temporal and spectral specifications of MODIS are considered as highly suitable for LULC classifications which support many different aspects of social, environmental and develo...

The main goal of this paper is to study the effect of the spatio-temporal changes of Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) within the hydrologic regime of the Cervaro basin in Southern Italy. LANDSAT Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery acquisition dates from 1984, 2003, 2009, and 2011 were selected to produce LULC maps covering a time trend of 28 years. Nine synthetic bands were processed as input data identifie...